turfman

Definitions

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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A turfite; a votary of the turf, or race course.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. One who is devoted to horse-racing.

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Examples

During that period of ardent, laborious youth, he faithfully shut himself up in libraries, attended public lectures, and gave himself a solid foundation of learning, which sometimes awakened surprise when discovered under the elegant frivolity of the gay turfman.

But like his brother in arms, Colonel Cash, of the Eighth, and brother turfman, he became disgusted with the thievery and trickery of later day sports and quit the turf, still owning at his death some of the most noted racers of the times, Granger Lynchburg, John Payne,